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Greetings from Cyberdelic Space

This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And in case you've been wondering where I've been these past 10 days,

I'll tell you all about it after we first listened to this lecture by Terrence McKenna.

And in it, he's going to give us a survey and a history of psychoactive plants around the world.

You know, in past podcasts, I'm sure you've heard me mention the fact that during the 1980s, Terence McKenna's workshops were, well, they were just about the only source of

information about psychedelics that actually reached the streets.

While there was some information about psychoactive plants, actually quite a bit available in professional journals and university libraries,

it took Terence to pull out this information and repackage it for the rest of us.

Now, the workshop that we were about to join took place in June of 1989, which was 25 years ago in case you don't want to do the math yourself.

This talk begins with Terrence discussing the fact that, well, at least back in 1989,

there was very little effort being made to preserve information about the Amazon rainforest,

information that had been discovered and compiled by the indigenous populations over several millennia.

And as to whether that situation has improved, well, I'll leave that up to you to decide.

But should you decide that there is still not enough being done to gather this valuable information while we still can,

well, then perhaps, just perhaps, maybe you should be figuring out how you can do something to improve the situation.

And now, here once again is the Bard McKenna.

I'm sure you're all aware of the situation of peril

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